WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Welcome to World Geography. This is a very important course in providing you with some fundamental skills as a geographer and as a citizen of the world. This course will set out setting up what is important in being a geographer. It's not all about just reading maps, but that helps.

Course objectives


At the end of this course students should be able to:

1. analyze and explain the ways groups, societies, and cultures address human needs and concerns;
2. predict how data and experiences may be interpreted by people from diverse cultural perspectives and frames of reference;
3. compare and analyze societal patterns for preserving and transmitting culture while adapting to environmental or social change;
4. refine mental maps of locales, regions, and the world that demonstrate understanding of relative location, direction, size, and shape;
5. create, interpret, use, and synthesize information from various representations of the earth, such as maps, globes, and photographs;
6. describe and compare how people create places that reflect culture, human needs, government policy, and current values and ideals as they design and build specialized buildings, neighborhoods, shopping centers, urban centers, industrial parks, and the like;
7. use knowledge of physical system changes such as seasons, climate and weather, and the water cycle to explain geographic phenomena;
8. describe and compare how people create places that reflect culture, human needs, government policy, and current values and ideals as they design and build specialized buildings, neighborhoods, shopping centers, urban centers, industrial parks, and the like;
9. describe and assess ways that historical events have been influenced by, and have influenced, physical and human geographic factors in local, regional, national, and global settings;
10. analyze and evaluate social and economic effects of environmental changes and crises resulting from phenomena such as floods, storms, and drought;
11. describe the various forms institutions take, and explain how they develop and change over time;
12. describe the various forms institutions take, and explain how they develop and change over time;
13. distinguish between the domestic and global economic systems, and explain how the two interact;
14. analyze or formulate policy statements demonstrating an understanding of concerns, standards, issues, and conflicts related to universal human rights;
15. describe and evaluate the role of international and multinational organizations in the global arena;

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Textbook(s) for the Course and

Textbook Front Cover	Name of Textbook
	World Geography McDougal Littell

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Unit One Introduction to the Study of Geography
Chapters 1-4.
Unit Two Africa
Chapters 18-20
Unit Three Latin America
Chapters 9-11

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